They say that laughter is a purely human phenomenon, so exclusively ours that we brook no intruders-except, of course, for the laughing hyena, the laughing jackass (officially known as the kookaburra bird of Australia), laughing matters, laughing gas, or the perennial laughing stock. But what is humor, that funny thing so varied in its colors and tones, so encompassing in its themes, so different from time to time and place to place? And when we poke fun, at whom are we really laughing? At Whom Are We Laughing?: Humor in Romance Language Literatures is the selective product of a...
They say that laughter is a purely human phenomenon, so exclusively ours that we brook no intruders-except, of course, for the laughing hyena, the lau...
In this monograph, Gregory M. Pell provides a full-length study on the poetry of Davide Rondoni, one of Italy s most active contemporary writers and thinkers. This book includes comparative studies of Jorie Graham, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Charles Wright, John Ashbery, Patrizia Fazzi, and Mario Luzi. As the first book in English on Davide Rondoni s poetry, this study explores how the Italian poet deals with art, and the places of art, in a way that transcends the notion of ekphrasis (or, verbal representation of pictorial art) to see poetry as the transcription of an experience with art, thus...
In this monograph, Gregory M. Pell provides a full-length study on the poetry of Davide Rondoni, one of Italy s most active contemporary writers and t...
